Born on this day – James Hadley Chase:

James Hadley Chase

Writer

December 24, 1906 – February 6, 1985

Credits:

A Can of Worms (1979); A Coffin from Hong Kong (1962); A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961); An Ace Up My Sleeve (1971); An Ear to the Ground (1968); Believe This, You'll Believe Anything (1975); Believed Violent (1968); Blonde's Requiem (1946); But a Short Time to Live (1951); Cade (1966); Come Easy, Go Easy (1960); Come Easy, Go Easy / Cade / My Laugh Comes Last (1993); Consider Yourself Dead (1978); Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead (1976); Double Shuffle / Shock Treatment / Tell it to the Birds (1974); Eve (1945); Figure It Out for Yourself (1950); Get a Load of This (1941); Goldfish Have No Hiding Place (1974); Hand Me a Fig Leaf (1981); Have a Change of Scene (1973); Have a Nice Night (1982); Have This One On Me (1967); He Won't Need It Now (1939); Hit and Run (1958); Hit Them Where It Hurts (1985); I Hold the Four Aces (1977); I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962); I'll Bury My Dead (1953); I'll Get You for This (1946); In a Vain Shadow (1951); Just a Matter of Time (1972); Just Another Sucker (1961); Just the Way It Is (1944); Knock, Knock! Who's There? (1973); Lady, Here's Your Wreath (1940); Last Page (1946); Lay Her Among the Lilies (1950); Like a Hole in the Head (1970); Make the Corpse Walk (1946); Mallory (1950); Meet Mark Girland (1977); Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941); Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944); Mission to Siena (1955); Mission to Venice (1954); More Deadly Than the Male (1946); My Laugh Comes Last (1977); Never Trust a Woman (1957); No Business of Mine (1947); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939); Not My Thing (1983); Not Safe to Be Free (1958); One Bright Summer Morning (1963); Ruthless (1955); Safer Dead (1954); Shock Treatment (1959); Slipstream (1946); So Soon To Die (1975); So What Happens to Me? (1974); Strictly for Cash (1951); Tell It to the Birds (1963); The Dead Stay Dumb (1939); The Doll's Bad News (1940); The Double Shuffle (1952); The Fast Buck (1952); The Flesh of the Orchid (1948); The Guilty Are Afraid (1957); The Joker in the Pack (1975); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Mirror in Room 22 (1946); The Paw in the Bottle (1949); The Pickup (1955); The Soft Centre (1964); The Sucker Punch (1954); The Things Men Do (1953); The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (1969); The Wary Transgressor (1952); The Way the Cookie Crumbles (1965); The Whiff of Money (1969); The World in My Pocket (1959); There's a Hippie On the Highway (1970); There's Always a Price Tag (1956); This Is for Real (1965); This Way for a Shroud (1953); Three of Spades (1974); Tiger By the Tail (1954); Trusted Like the Fox (1948); Try This One for Size (1980); Want to Stay Alive? (1971); Well Now, My Pretty (1967); We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982); What's Better Than Money? (1960); Why Pick On Me? (1951); You Can Say That Again (1980); You Find Him, I'll Fix Him (1956); You Have Yourself a Deal (1966); You Must Be Kidding (1979); You Never Know with Women (1949); You're Dead Without Money (1972); You're Lonely When You're Dead (1949); You've Got It Coming (1955).

Movies and television:

A Kiss for a Killer (1957); Assicurazione sulla morte (1987); Bukhta smerti (1991); Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants (1959); Cambiamento d'aria (1988); Cinépanorama (1957); Coffin from Hong Kong (1964); Crime and Passion (1975); Crime on a Summer Morning (1965); Dans la gueule du loup (1961); Dead End (1965); Délit de fuite (1959); Die Katze im Sack (1965); Emmenez-moi au théâtre: Pas d'orchidées pour Miss Blandisch (1978); Eva (1962 / 2018); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986–1989); Have a Nice Night (1990); Highway Pick-Up (1963); Kazino (1992); La petite vertu (1968); L'avvoltoio sa attendere (1991); Le démoniaque (1968); Le denier du colt (1990); Les canailles (1960); Lotosblüten für Miss Quon (1967); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Mais qui arrêtera la pluie? (1990); Man Bait (1952); Mark of the Tortoise (1964); Miraza (1983); Miss Shumway Goes West (1963); Mission to Venice (1964); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948); On svoyo poluchit (1992); Palmetto (1998); Pas folle la guêpe (1972); Patto con la morte (1982); Playhouse 90 (1959); Pracka v láhvi (1978); Présumé dangereux (1990); Requiem per voce e pianoforte (1993); Retour de manivelle (1957); Rigged (1986); Rough Magic (1995); Snayper (1992); Spider's Web (1963); Studio One (1958); The Blonde from Peking (1967); The Catamount Killing (1974); The Flesh of the Orchid (1975); The Grissom Gang (1971); The Man in the Raincoat (1957); The Night of the Generals (1967); The Set Up (1995); The World in My Pocket (1961); Trop petit mon ami (1970); Try This One for Size (1989); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1960); Young Girls Beware (1957); Zlaté rybicky (1979).

Born on this day – Franz Waxman:

Franz Waxman

Composer

Actor

December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967

Born on this day – Joseph “Joe” MacDonald:

Joseph “Joe” MacDonald

Cinematographer

Actor

December 15, 1906 – May 26, 1968

Credits:

40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); 6-18-67 (1967); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); A Hatful of Rain (1957); Adorable (1933); All Men Are Enemies (1934); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Arizona (1940); As Young as You Feel (1951); Behind Green Lights (1946); Bigger Than Life (1956); Blindfold (1966); Broken Lance (1954); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain Eddie (1945); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Dante's Inferno (1935); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); Five Fingers (1959–1960); Flight from Ashiya (1964); Fourteen Hours (1951); Hat Check Girl (1932); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); Hell and High Water (1954); Hilda Crane (1956); House of Bamboo (1955); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Kings of the Sun (1963); Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Mirage (1965); Moss Rose (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Niagara (1953); O. Henry's Full House (1952); On the Threshold of Space (1956); Panic in the Streets (1950); Pepe (1960); Pickup on South Street (1953); Pinky (1949); Professional Soldier (1935); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932); Rio Conchos (1964); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Romance of the Rio Grande (1940); Rosa de Francia (1935); Sailor's Luck (1933); Second Hand Wife (1933); She Was a Lady (1934); Shock (1946); Sob Sister (1931); Stella (1950); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Taras Bulba (1962); Te quiero con locura (1935); Teenage Rebel (1956); Ten North Frederick (1958); That Other Woman (1942); The Big Noise (1944); The Big Stampede (1932); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Dark Corner (1946); The Devil's in Love (1933); The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958); The Gallant Hours (1960); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942); The New Venezuela (1954); The Postman Didn't Ring (1942); The Racers (1955); The Reward (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Street with No Name (1948); The True Story of Jesse James (1957); The View from Pompey's Head (1955); The Young Lions (1958); Thin Ice (1937); Titanic (1953); Too Busy to Work (1932); Viva Zapata! (1952); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Warlock (1959); Western Union (1941); What Price Glory (1952); Where Love Has Gone (1964); White Witch Doctor (1953); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Wintertime (1943); Woman's World (1954); Yellow Sky (1948); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – John Dickson Carr:

John Dickson Carr

Writer

November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977

Credits:

Books:

A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Very Murderous Christmas (2018); Below Suspicion (1949); Bodies from the Library 3 (2020); Bodies from the Library 5 (2022); Captain Cut-Throat (1955); Castle Skull (1931); Christmas Crimes (1996); Crime on the Coast / No Flowers by Request (1987); Crimes of Cymru (2023); Daring Detectives (1969); Dark of the Moon (1967); Deadly Arts (1985); Deadly Hall (1971); Dear Dead Days (1972); Death-Watch (1935); Dying of Fright (1976); English Country House Murders (1988); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1938); Fire, Burn! (1957); Ghosts and Scholars (1987); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (2022); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Hag's Nook (1932); Handle with Care (1985); He Who Whispers (1946); In Spite of Thunder (1960); It Walks By Night (1930); Manhattan Mysteries (1987); Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985); Metropolitan Mysteries (2024); More Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes (1954); Most Secret (1964); Murder by the Seaside (2022); Murder In Midsummer (2019); Murder On Christmas Eve (2017); Murder Takes a Holiday (2020); Murderous Schemes (1996); Nine Detective Stories (1964); Panic in Box C (1966); Papa La-Bas (1968); Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956); Poison in Jest (1932); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); The Arabian Nights Murder (1936); The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1982); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Blind Barber (1934); The Bride of Newgate (1950); The Burning Court (1937); The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941); The Corpse in the Waxworks / aka The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Crooked Hinge (1938); The Dead Man's Knock (1958); The Demoniacs (1962); The Devil in Velvet (1951); The Eight of Swords (1934); The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942); The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954); The Four False Weapons (1937); The Ghosts' High Noon (1969); The Hollow Man / aka The Three Coffins (1935); The House at Satan's Elbow (1965); The Hungry Goblin (1972); The Island of Coffins (2021); The John Dickson Carr Omnibus (2000); The Kindling Spark (2022); The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949); The Locked Room Reader (1968); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933); The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993); The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940); The Men Who Explained Miracles (1964); The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936); The Nine Wrong Answers (1952); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939); The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939); The Scandal at High Chimneys (1959); The Seat of the Scornful / aka Death Turns the Tables (1942); The Sleeping Sphinx (1947); The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (1981); The Witch of Low Tide (1961); Third Bullet and Other Stories (1954); 13 to the Gallows (2008); Till Death Do Us Part (1944); Till Death Do Us Part / Intrigue for Empire / Give 'Em the Axe (1944); To Wake the Dead (1938); Vintage Crime (2020); Who Killed Father Christmas? (2023).

Movies and television:

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1956); City After Midnight (1957); Climax! (1958); Colonel March Investigates (1953); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956); Danger (1951); Dangerous Crossing (1953); Detective (1964–1969); Devcátko s petrklíci (1967); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Encounter (1956); Guilty Party (1957); La dama dei veleni (1979); L'occhio di Giuda (1982); Los suicidios constantes (1961); Mado no naka no satsujin (1983); Morte a passo di valzer (1979); Retro Static Radio / Podcast Series (2020); Storyboard (1961); Studio One (1952); Suspense (1949–1953); The Burning Court (1962); The Man in Black (1950); The Man with a Cloak (1951); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); The Unforeseen (1959); Tre colpi di fucile (1982); Treacherous Crossing (1992).

Born on this day – Rhodie Cogan:

Rhodie Cogan

Actress

November 26, 1906 – April 24, 2000

Credits:

Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Days of Our Lives (1974); Gunsmoke (1974); Stand by Your Man (1981); Star Trek (1967); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Vendors (1970); Watermelon Man (1970); Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973).

Born on this day – Mary Ellen Bute:

Ted Nemeth (left) and Mary Ellen Bute (right), photographed in their New York studio (circa 1936).

Mary Ellen Bute

Animator

Producer

Director

November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983

Credits:

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966); RCA: New Sensations in Sound (1959); Imaginations (1958); Mood Contrasts (1953); Abstronic (1952); Pastoral (1950); Color Rhapsodie (1948); Polka Graph (1947); Tarantella (1940); Spook Sport (1940); Parábola (1937); Escape (1937); Dada (1936); Synchromy No. 2 (1936); Rhythm in Light (1935); Synchromy No. 1 (1934).

Born on this day – Betty Bronson:

Betty Bronson

Actress

November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971

Credits:

A Kiss for Cinderella (1925); A Modern Sappho (1929); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); American Masters (2008); Anna Ascends (1922); Are Parents People? (1925); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Blackbeard's Ghost (1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Brass Knuckles (1927); Companionate Marriage (1928); Compression (2023–2024); Dr. Kildare (1962); Evel Knievel (1971); Everybody's Acting (1926); Grindl (1964); His Children's Children (1923); Java Head (1923); Lover Come Back (1931); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); My Three Sons (1960–1963); Not So Long Ago (1925); One Stolen Night (1929); Open Range (1927); Paradise (1926); Paradise for Two (1927); Peter Pan (1924); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Ritzy (1927); Run for Your Life (1965); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Shannon (1962); Sonny Boy (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Cat's Pajamas (1926); The Eternal City (1923); The Go-Getter (1923); The Golden Princess (1925); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Human Mill (1923); The Locked Door (1929); The Medicine Man (1930); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Midnight Patrol (1932); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Singing Fool (1928); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Twenty-One (1923); Who's Got the Action? (1962); Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937).

Born on this day – Henri Charrière:

Henri Charrière

Writer

Actor

November 16, 1906 – July 29, 1973

Credits:

Books:

Papillon (1969); Banco (1973).

Recommended reading:

Papillon

By Henri Charriere.

ASIN: B01N8YET21

Published by William Morrow.

First published 1969.

Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.

Banco:

The Further Adventures of Papillon

By Henri Charrière.

Published by Granada Publishing Limited.

First published 1972.

ISBN 13: 9780586040102

ISBN 10: 0586040102

ASIN: 0586040102

The sensational sequel to Papillon. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raiding exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries – robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 – when he decides to write the book that brings his international fame.

Movies:

Papillon (2017); Papillon (1973); Popsy Pop (1971).

Born on this day – Louise Brooks:

Louise Brooks

Actress

Dancer

Writer

Painter

November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985

Credits:

A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Social Celebrity (1926); Beggars of Life (1928); Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); Empty Saddles (1936); Evening Clothes (1927); God's Gift to Women (1931); It Pays to Advertise (1931); It's the Old Army Game (1926); Just Another Blonde (1926); King of Gamblers (1937); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Now We're in the Air (1927); Overland Stage Raiders (1938); Pandora's Box (1929); Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930); Rolled Stockings (1927); The American Venus (1926); The Canary Murder Case (1929); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Show-Off (1926); The Street of Forgotten Men (1925); When You're in Love (1937); Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931).

Born on this day – Hermione Baddeley:

Hermione Baddeley

Actress

November 13, 1906 – August 19, 1986

Born on this day – Sidney Kingsley:

Sidney Kingsley

Writer

October 22, 1906 – March 20, 1995

Credits:

Written work / plays:

Darkness at Noon (stage & TV adaptation) (1951); Dead End (1935); Detective Story (1949); Lunatics and Lovers (1954); Men in White (1933); Night Life (1962); Ten Million Ghosts (1936); The Patriots (1943); The World We Make (1939).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1974); American Masters (1989); Au théâtre ce soir (1972); Dead End (1937); Detective Story (1951 / 1963); Estudio 1 (1971–1978); Great Performances (1976); Homecoming (1948); ITV Play of the Week (1963); Men in White (1934); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Polizeirevier 21 (1968); Primera fila (1964); Producers' Showcase (1955); Serpico (1973); Sonnenfinsternis (1963); Teatro estudio (1978); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); The Patriots (1963); We, the People (1949–1951); World in White (1957).

Born on this day – Johnny Temple:

Johnny Temple

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 18, 1906 – November 22, 1968

Credits:

Albums:

Johnnie Temple 1935-1940: From Mississippi to Chicago (The Blues) (1997); Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938-1940 (2005); Johnnie Temple Vol. 3 1940-1949 (2005); Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out (2006); Lead Pencil Blues (2015); Presenting Johnnie Temple (1935); Vol. 1 1935-1938 (2005).

Songs:

Beale Street Sheik; Between Midnight and Dawn; Big Boat Whistle; Big Leg Woman; Big Woman Blues; County Jail Blues; East Saint Louis Blues; Every Dog Must Have His Day; Fare You Well; Gimme Some of That Yum Yum Yum; Gonna Ride 74; Hoodoo Women; I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again; Jacksonville Blues; Lead Pencil Blues; Louise Louise Blues; Mama's Bad Luck Child; Mean Baby Blues; New Louise Louise Blues; New Vicksburg Blues; Olds "98" Blues; Peeping Through The Keyhole; Pimple Blues; Rhythm Mama; Snapping Cat; So Lonely And Blue; Something in the Moon That Gives Me a Thrill; Stavin' Chain; The Evil Devil Blues; What Is It That Smells Like Gravy?; Yum, Yum, Yum.

Born on this day – Victoria Spivey:

Victoria Spivey

Blues singer

Songwriter

October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976

Born on this day – Katherine Emery:

Katherine Emery

Actress

October 11, 1906 – February 7, 1980

Credits:

3-D Rarities (2015); Arch of Triumph (1948); Chicken Every Sunday (1949); Eyes in the Night (1942); Hiawatha (1952); Isle of the Dead (1945); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Payment on Demand (1951); Strange Bargain (1949); The Locket (1946); The Maze (1953); The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947); The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); Untamed Frontier (1952).

Born on this day – Janet Gaynor:

Janet Gaynor

Actress

October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984

Born on this day – Jim Thompson:

Jim Thompson

Writer

September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977

Credits:

A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).

Movies and television:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me (1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280 (2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).

Born on this day – Monette Dinay:

Monette Dinay

Actress

September 20, 1906 – November 19, 1986

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Lawrence Clark Powell

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).

Born on this day – Eleanor Alice Hibbert:

Eleanor Alice Hibbert

Writer

September 1, 1906 – January 18, 1993

Credits:

Books:

A Favorite of the Queen (1955); A Gothic Treasure Trove (1987); A Health Unto His Majesty (1956); A Time for Silence (1991); Alexa (1948); Begin to Live (1956); Believe the Heart (1950); Beyond the Blue Mountains (1947); Blaze of Noon (1958); Bride of Pendorric (1963); Bright Tomorrow (1952); Call of the Blood (1956); Caroline, the Queen (1968); Castile for Isabella (1960); Castles in Spain (1954); Charles II: Trilogy (1972); Courting Her Highness (1966); Danse Macabre (1952); Daughter of Anna (1941); Daughter of Deceit (1991); Daughter of Satan (1952); Daughters of England (1995); Daughters of Spain (1961); Dear Chance (1947); Dear Delusion (1952); Defenders of the Faith (1956); Epitaph for Three Women (1981); Evergreen Gallant (1965); Evil in the House / aka Such Bitter Business (1953); Flaunting, Extravagant Queen (1957); For a Queen's Love (1954); Goddess of the Green Room (1971); Hammer of the Scots aka Edward Longshanks (1979); Heart's Afire (1954); Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (1957); In the Shadow of the Crown (1988); Indiscretions of the Queen (1970); It Began in Vauxhall Gardens / aka Melisande (1955); Katharine, the Virgin Widow (1961); Kirkland Revels (1962); Lament for a Lost Lover (1977); Last of the Stuarts (1977); Leave Me My Love (1953); Light on Lucrezia (1958); Lilith (1954); Lord of the Far Island (1975); Louis the Well Beloved (1959); Loyal in Love (1983); Lucrezia Borgia: Madonna of the Seven Hills and Light on Lucrezia (1976); Madame du Barry (1959); Madame Serpent (1951); Madonna of the Seven Hills (1958); Married in Haste (1956); Mary, Queen of France (1964); Mary, Queen of Scots (1975); Meg Roper (1961); Menfreya in the Morning / aka Menfreya (1966); Midsummer's Eve (1986); Milady Charlotte (1959); Miracle At St. Brunos (1972); Mistress of Mellyn (1960); Murder Most Royal / aka King's Pleasure (1949); My Enemy, the Queen (1978); Night of Stars (1960); Not in Our Stars (1945); Now That April's Gone (1961); On the Night of the Seventh Moon (1972); Passage to Pontefract (1981); Passionate Witness (1941); Perdita's Prince (1969); Poison in Pimlico (1950); Pride of the Morning (1958); Queen in Waiting (1967); Queen Jezebel (1953); Queen of This Realm (1985); Red Rose of Anjou (1982); Red Sky At Night (1959); Rochester (1957); Rooms at Mrs. Oliver's (1952); Royal Sisters (1966); Saint Or Sinner? (1951); Saraband for Two Sisters (1976); Secret for a Nightingale (1986); Selected Works (1979); Seven for a Secret (1992); Snare of Serpents (1990); So the Dreams Depart (1944); Spain for the Sovereigns (1960); Story of Elizabeth I (1984); Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill (1970); The Adulteress (1982); The Bastard King (1974); The Battle of the Queens (1978); The Bed Disturbed (1952); The Black Opal (1993); The Black Swan (1990); The Brides of Lanlory (1960); The Captive (1988); The Captive of Kensington Palace (1972); The Captive Queen of Scots (1963); The Changeling (1989); The Complete Tudors (2010); The Courts of Love (1987); The Curse of the Kings (1973); The Dawn Chorus (1959); The Demon Lover (1982); The Devil on Horseback (1977); The Drop of the Dice / aka Will You Love Me in September? (1981); The End of the Spanish Inquisition (1961); The Flesh and the Devil (1950); The Follies of the King (1980); The Goldsmith's Wife / aka The King's Mistress (1950); The Gossamer Cord (1992); The Growth of the Spanish Inquisition (1960); The Heart of the Lion (1977); The House At Cupid's Cross (1949); The House of a Thousand Lanterns (1974); The India Fan (1988); The Italian Woman / aka The Unholy Woman (1952); The Judas Kiss (1981); The King of the Castle (1967); The King's Confidante (1954); The King's Secret Matter (1962); The Lady in the Tower (1986); The Landower Legacy (1984); The Legend of the Seventh Virgin (1964); The Lion of Justice (1975); The Lion Triumphant (1973); The Love Child (1978); The Married Lover (1942); The Mask of the Enchantress (1980); The Merry Monarch's Wife / aka The Pleasures of Love (1991); The Murder in the Tower (1964); The Passionate Enemies (1976); The Plantagenet Prelude (1976); The Pool of Saint Branok (1987); The Pride of the Peacock (1976); The Prince and the Quakeress (1968); The Prince of Darkness (1978); The Princess of Celle (1967); The Queen and Lord M (1973); The Queen from Provence (1979); The Queen of Diamonds (1958); The Queen's Confession (1968); The Queen's Devotion / aka William's Wife (1992); The Queen's Husband (1973); The Queen's Secret (1989); The Regent's Daughter (1971); The Reluctant Queen (1990); The Return of the Gypsy (1985); The Revolt of the Eaglets (1977); The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition (1959); The Road to Compiegne (1959); The Road to Paradise Island (1985); The Rose Without a Thorn (1992); The Royal Road to Fotheringhay / aka Mary, Queen of Scotland: The Triumphant Year (1955); The Scarlet Cloak (1957); The Secret Woman (1970); The Shadow of the Lynx (1971); The Shadow of the Pomegranate (1962); The Shivering Sands (1969); The Silk Vendetta (1987); The Sixth Wife (1953); The Song of the Siren (1980); The Spanish Inquisition (1978); The Spring of the Tiger (1979); The Star of Lancaster (1981); The Sun in Splendour (1982); The Third George (1969); The Thistle and the Rose (1963); The Three Crowns (1965); The Time of the Hunter's Moon (1983); The Vow on the Heron (1980); The Wandering Prince (1956); The Widow of Windsor (1974); The Witch from the Sea (1975); The World's a Stage (1960); The Young Elizabeth (1961); The Young Mary Queen of Scots (1962); This Was a Man / aka The King's Adventurer: Captain John Smith And Pocahontas (1961); Three Great Romantic Stories (1972); To Hold the Crown (1982); To Meet a Stranger (1957); Together They Ride (1945); Triptych of Poisoners (1970); Two Loves in Her Life (1955); Victoria in the Wings (1972); Victoria Victorious (1985); Voices in a Haunted Room (1984); We'll Meet Again (1993); When Other Hearts (1955); When the Entire World Is Young (1943); When We Are Married (1953); Who's Calling? (1962); Zipporah's Daughter / aka The Knave of Hearts (1983).

Born on this day – Noel Francis:

Noel Francis

Actress

August 31, 1906 – October 30, 1959

Credits:

Bachelor Apartment (1931); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blood Money (1933); Bureau of Missing Persons (1933); Fifteen Wives (1934); Flames (1932); Frisco Jenny (1932); Good Dame (1934); Guilty as Hell (1932); Havana Widows (1933); Her Hired Husband (1930); Her Resale Value (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); Imitation of Life (1934); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Left Handed Law (1937); Madison Square Garden (1932); Man About Town (1932); Manhattan Tower (1932); Mutiny Ahead (1935); My Pal, the King (1932); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); Night Court (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Reform Girl (1933); Resurrection (1931); Rough Romance (1930); Screen Snapshots (1932); Smart Money (1931); Smart Woman (1931); So Big! (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Strictly Dynamite (1934); Sudden Bill Dorn (1937); The Easiest Way (1931); The Expert (1932); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Important Witness (1933); The Line-Up (1934); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Mouthpiece (1932); The White Cockatoo (1935); The White Parade (1934); Turkey for Two (1929); Under-Cover Man (1932); Up the River (1930); What's Your Racket? (1934).